Word: greets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter of personal space violation for me. You can shake my hand or fondly caress my shoulder (acceptable forms of greeting in the West), but the hair is sacred. How many of your white friends do you greet by scruffing their heads...
...begins by refusing to allow the inspectors into his far-flung compounds and intelligence-service headquarters. Saddam is trying to persuade the Security Council that the inspections as well as the embargo must come to an end. Failing that, he can endure and survive an American bombardment, emerging to greet a world newly sympathetic to Iraqi suffering and outraged by American bullying. His defiance brings him admiration; his resistance rallies his people to his side. The U.N. inspectors will be gone, and the embargo will be shakier than ever. He probably figures that even if he cannot get a vote...
...would drop by his office...and he would keep everybody waiting and greet local constituents," Duehay recalls...
There were curlers here and a Kenyan skier there, female hockey players and an Indian luger. Now and then, perhaps, a few niceties got lost in translation ("Oh, we beseech you. Heave-ho, heave-ho," was one of the first lines to greet spectators on the scoreboard), but for the most part the ceremonies so conformed to the textbook that even their "image director" was a man whose first name is Man. Elegiacally minded Japanese may have been calling these the last Games of the 20th century, but the efflorescence of young faces suggested they are really the first...
...part, Castro skillfully extended his blessing over the visit, basking in the reflected glow of legitimacy, hoping to blunt any strong statements on human liberties with a display of openness and tolerance. He ensured that big crowds would greet John Paul by giving workers time off. He identified himself with the Pope's views on hunger, poverty and social justice. And he pressed Cubans to consider the visit primarily a show of support. "We're not here because he is the Pope," said Aimee Vaillant, a 26-year-old Havana nurse, "but because his visit is an honor to Cuba...